Word: rep
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...Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) may pose an even more direct threat to the standardized testing establishment. He is currently rewriting a bill he introduced in the House last year seeking to limit the use and power of standardized tests. "The basic aim of this bill is to see a less mechanized, less fallible process," James Castello, Harrington's legislative assistant, says. "What you can read from someone filling in little IBM bubbles for three hours does not amount to much," he adds...
...original bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul D. Rogers (D-Fla.), contained strong language on federal standards, but when an amendment softened the bill's language, Harvard withdrew its support. Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-W. Va.), chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Health and Environment, asked a Harvard lobbyist to draw up a new bill. Staffers associated with drafting the DNA legislation said the Harvard bill contained errors in procedural language, and said Rogers developed an alternative bill. Rogers persuaded Staggers to accept this bill, which restored the strong federal override clause. The bill...
...identities of degree recipients are traditionally kept secret up to the last minute, but informed sources are pitting their money on heart-throb John Travolta. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y.) is another likely candidate, although fellow New Yorker Joe Torre, like the Mets he manages, is out of the running this year...
...Camp Raffali in Corsica, officers and men of the Deuxèeme REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment) listened in silence to radio newscasts from Zaire. There was no sign of mourning when Foreign Legion casualties from their unit were announced, even though punishment squads of delinquent recruits were already digging graves in a military cemetery near the legion's paratroop base. "If they get you, they get you," said a veteran. "One legionnaire is worth 20 of the opposition...
Last year's Commencement speaker was Rep. Barbara Jordan...